Comments on: The Truth About Online Marketing

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:57:22 +0000

Hi Thai – my advice is to read up about them, perhaps even buy an info product about joint ventures and host beneficiary relationships.

Jay Abraham has lots of good info on this from a general business point of view.

Or of course you could just starting emailing/calling people who you think you could offer some value to (and not just a commission on sales) and see if they would JV with you.

By: Thai

Thai — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:13:38 +0000

Yaro, Joint Ventures as a method of creating traffic has peaked my interest. Do you know how I would go about approaching this? Do I have to seek out these companies on my own or are there services that provide help with this?

Thanks,
Thai

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:46:48 +0000

Hi Again Chris – you seem to be journeying my blogs

Joint Ventures are an interesting topic. Many people understand the power but often don’t take action (that’s a common story in general I suppose). The few that establish many J-V partners for long term do really well because every time they have a new product to launch they have a nice network of “buddies” to launch it with.

It doesn’t build up over night, but creating long term relationships with multiple people makes the whole J-Ving process a lot easier, and is something I recommend all marketers work towards no matter what stage they are at in their business career.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:37:02 +0000

Glad you liked it George – if you have half a million “hits” and a good conversion rate I think you are doing pretty well!

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:02:56 +0000

Hello Maricel – I suggest you ask your request for feedback in my – forums – that’s quite a strange project you have running so no doubt people will be interested in what you are doing.

The forum has lots of other people who run Internet business so in there we can all help out.

Hope to see you in the forums!

Yaro

By: Maricel Ramos

Maricel Ramos — Tue, 30 May 2006 17:35:43 +0000

I am a 21 year old student and I recently learned how to create my own website and started an online project. My website is http://www.skinauction.com. With limited resources, I realized very quickly how hard it is to get traffic. I’m an amateur when it comes to online marketing and your info, I found was very interesting. I would love for you to visit my site and give me much needed advice. You seem to be the right person to ask:)

By: George Anderson

George Anderson — Mon, 29 May 2006 18:57:08 +0000

Yaro,
This is great. I am doing some Joint Ventures but this entry gives me more ideas. My current hits are around 500,000 per month and my conversion rate is impressive.
Many service businesses and niche markets to not read small business blogs. This places them at a tremenduos disadvantage.
Thanks

By: Chris Rempel

Chris Rempel — Mon, 29 May 2006 17:34:06 +0000

Great post, Yaro.

Joint Ventures are definitely the most powerful way to generate a lot of traffic (and customers) in record time.

I’d like to point out that even if some of your readers don’t have a product that they can split commissions on (say, if they’re building an Adsense site), you can still quite easily JV with another website by:

* Creating a co-project of some kind, such as a web-ring or a seperate directory

* Trading adspace for permanent links (which will boost your search engine placement as well)

* Cross endorsing eachother, which can be as simple as trading links, or as instant as mailing out an announcement to both of your newsletter lists.

And so on.

Be creative, and understand that partnerships can absolutely accelerate your marketing efforts – perhaps replacing months or even YEARS of manual link building, PPC and other methods.

Sincerely,

Chris Rempel